The Benefits of God

Heaven is going to be a place that’s happy. No more heartache, sorrow, or sin. The presence of God is the highlight will be. The lost will not and can not rejoice. Until one is born again you simply can’t rejoice. Not many people enjoy sad days. Bad things happen all the time and without our control. God doesn’t change even though the things around us are always moving and changing. What will it take for you to be happy? There are a few things that make us happy in the Lord. If you’re lost then come on in and be born again. Psalm 103:2-5

1 Peter 1:2; Do you really know the benefits of God? They can’t be all told. If you’re born again then you are one of the elect. Being one of the elect is the first benefit of God. Being an elect means that you are in his hand and no one can pluck you out of it. We live in a time when the saved need to lift their head up and smile a bit. The saved walk around like their dog just died. Get a grasp on the benefits of God, your Father, and turn that frown upside down. Stop acting like an orphan! Go greatly rejoicing every day!

Sanctified & justified. The scripture says just a sprinkling of the blood of Christ sealed our souls. If all it takes is a sprinkle of His blood, that’s some powerful blood. The devil remembers your sins and loves to bring them back up, yet God no longer sees them.

1 Peter 1:3;
P. Praise
R. Repent
A. Ask
Y. Yield
If you start your prayer with praises to the Father then you’ve started it off on a good foot. Jesus told the disciples when they realized they could heal people do not rejoice in those things but rejoice in Jesus Christ. The more you look at God the bigger and bigger He gets and the smaller you get. You will automatically begin to say sorry once you begin to see how big God is.

Merciful. Not only is God defined as love but also mercy. We need His mercy every day. We as flesh love to hide our sins, sweeping them under the rug to hide them. God hates sin, He despises it. Yet we as flesh sin. With God having mercy, He is long-suffering through Grace. If He wasn’t merciful we would be in such a bad spot. His mercies are abundant.

Begotten. This reference is being called born again because God begot us again, born again. God gives life and He can take it away. If you’re saved then God created you, born the first time, then once saved you are born again into a spiritual being. Once this takes place then you have hope in something through faith. If you’ve been born again then you have believed in something that can’t physically be seen, yet you had faith and hope. Lottery tickets. If one has ever purchased one then they have dead hope. They have hope in getting money, something that’s dead. Having hope in God is a living hope because God is alive and not dead.

Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We the saved, get our hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The saved serves a living savior. If He could rise from the dead by Himself, then He doesn’t have a problem that He can’t fix.

1 Peter 1:4
Inheritance. Before you were saved you had no inheritance. Being lost means that once you die lost you will suffer great loss and gain great misery. Nothing good will be gained by being in Hell. Being saved you’ve heard about a place called, Heaven. It’s a place that’s incorruptible. No rust, no moths, and no thieves to steal anything that’s placed there. It’s a place that is never defiled. It’s also a place that will never fade away. The inheritance of Heaven is reserved for the saved.

1 Peter 1:5
Kept. We that are saved are all kept by the power of God. We can’t keep ourselves no matter how strong we are. Salvation means you are saved from Hell yet until you are in Heaven you are constantly working on it. Once you get to Heaven then your salvation is completed.

1 Peter 1:6-7
Rejoice! Rejoice!

1 Peter 1:8-9
Whom having not seen, ye love, in whom though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.